Re: [SCSI] aic94xx: new driver

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 00:06 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:52 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 23:09 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 04:00 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > > > --- a/include/scsi/scsi.h
> > > > +++ b/include/scsi/scsi.h
> > > > @@ -429,4 +429,10 @@ #define SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER  0x5386
> > > >  /* Used to obtain the PCI location of a device */
> > > >  #define SCSI_IOCTL_GET_PCI             0x5387
> > > >  
> > > > +/* Pull a u32 out of a SCSI message (using BE SCSI conventions) */
> > > > +static inline u32 scsi_to_u32(u8 *ptr)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       return (ptr[0]<<24) + (ptr[1]<<16) + (ptr[2]<<8) + ptr[3];
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > >  #endif /* _SCSI_SCSI_H */ 
> > > 
> > > Please explain why it's necessary to export this to userspace.
> > 
> > Er it's not ... but then it's not necessary to export this entire file,
> > either.
> 
> That's an acceptable answer, I suppose, given that glibc ships its own
> copy of the file in question.
> 
> But it does contain ioctl definitions, and if we ever added any new
> ioctls presumably they'd be added there too? It does seem to be the kind
> of thing we _do_ want to export from the kernel, surely?

Oh .. I thought we'd already got around that one by duplicating the
ioctls?  Those five are all deprecated, but if that's what you want
exporting, we could separate them into a new file.

> > From the SCSI point of view, the function definitely belongs in that
> > file because it's an accessor to facilitate the processing of commands
> > and their replies, which is what that file contains ... in fact it
> > contains a lot of the internal mechanics of the SCSI layer that the user
> > shouldn't necessarily be seeing.
> 
> All the more reason for us to export it for ourselves and exert some
> editorial control, perhaps?

Even if I'd known it was exported, I'm still not sure I'd have noticed
why or what the issues are.

James